Art: A History of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture, Volume 2

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Page 43Gone are the small quatrefoils; instead Ghiberti has enclosed several episodes
from each Old Testament story in single, square frames. Each entire relief is
gilded, thus unifying figures and background in a space suffused with golden
light into ...

Page 433Although the exterior is conventional and unimpressive in design, the vast interior space, based on an almost Leonardesque design with four apses radiating from
a central circular space, is unexpectedly original (fig. 515). The four colossal ...